A mental health nurse from Farnborough in Hampshire has been struck off the register after admitting sharing a tent with a vulnerable client. A panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Conduct and Competence Committee yesterday Eric Brian Phillips, who at the time was working for the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust, guilty of misconduct.

The government today unveiled a new agreement for funding the training of nurses and allied health professions, which is designed to prevent health authorities from raiding training budgets to offset NHS deficits.

A Citizens Advice Bureau adviser who was dismissed after she broke confidentiality rules to help to save the life of a suicidal caller has won her claim for unfair dismissal.

The government’s advisers on medicine knew that patients were at risk of contracting Aids from imported blood products as early as 1983, but ruled against a ban because of fears it would cause a shortage of supply.

The government’s shake-up of GP out-of-hours care has been criticised after an inquiry into a woman’s death. Penny Campbell, 41, from Islington, north London, died of septicaemia in 2005, after consulting eight different doctors over the four-day Easter break.

A nationally and internationally-renowned charity is set to help even more children with disabilities access life changing educational opportunities through an exciting new training venture.

A Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) has decided the case of a social worker from Lincoln who was alleged to have breached the code of practice for social care workers by maintaining a grossly offensive website as well as possessing indecent photographs of children.

Ramazan and Abdul-Khaliq live alone in a damp, terrace house in the western suburbs of Birmingham. The Afghan boys wake around 11am, skip breakfast, and usually spend the day watching children’s television, sitting cross-legged on the floor in dim light that seeps though closed curtains.

A judge yesterday described the new online doctors’ recruitment scheme as a flawed system with disastrous consequences.

One third of the country’s consultant-led maternity units could face closure because they are not big enough to cope with strict new European Union regulations on doctors’ working hours, the Conservatives claimed last night.